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The Selling of the Woodrow Wilson Center David Boyajian 2010-10-08 3:24 PM

The DC-based Woodrow Wilson Center has been violating its Congressional mandate and accepting tainted corporate money. If it does not reform, Congress should de-fund it. (image/jpeg)

Obama’s Congo moment: Genocide, the U.N. report and Senate Bill 2125 Ann Garrison 2010-10-07 5:39 PM

The official Oct. 1 release of the U.N. Report on Human Rights Abuses in the Democratic Republic of Congo, 1993-2003, documenting the Rwandan and Ugandan armies’ massacres of Rwandan Hutu refugees and Congolese Hutus in the Democratic Republic of Congo, should be a defining moment for President Barack Obama. How will the USA’s first African American president respond to the detailed and widely publicized U.N. documentation of genocide in the heart of Africa, committed by the USA’s longstanding military proxies, the armies of Rwandan President Paul Kagame and Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni? (image/jpeg)

Rally to Restore Sanity Buses DC Raly Bus 2010-10-03 5:12 AM

Bus services to the Rally to Restore Sanity in DC on 10/30. A site to self-organize charter roundtrip, flat rate, buses. (image/jpeg)

The FBI’s War On Democracy --Claude Marks discusses the new film COINTELPRO 101 Angola 3 News 2010-09-19 11:27 PM

The high point of struggle represented by the loosely used term “the sixties” and the violent repression against it, contains essential lessons for every young person seeking a more just society. More generally, people should not be misled by the myth of democracy, the idea that the system can be made to work for “us” or that those in power will somehow reach a moral epiphany and give up anything of consequence without a fight. (image/jpeg + 2 comments)

The Rwandan Patriotic Front’s bloody record and the history of U.N. cover-ups Christopher Black 2010-09-17 2:13 AM

On Aug. 26, the French newspaper Le Monde revealed the existence of a draft U.N. report on the most serious violations of human rights in the Democratic Republic of Congo over an 11-year period, 1993-2003.1 The massive draft report states that after the Rwandan Patriotic Front’s takeover of Rwanda in 1994, it proceeded to carry out “systematic and widespread attacks” against Hutu refugees who had fled Rwanda to neighboring Zaire (now the DRC) as well as against the Hutu civilian population of the DRC in general. Crucially, it concludes that the pattern of these attacks “reveal[s] a number of damning elements that, if they were proven before a competent court, could be classified as crimes of genocide.” (image/jpeg)

Kagame sworn in after UN report of guilt in Congo genocide Ann Garrison 2010-09-07 11:26 PM

Rwandan President Paul Kagame was sworn in to serve another seven-year term on September 6, 2010, eleven days after the explosive August 26th leak of a UN report documenting genocide committed by his army in the Democratic Republic of Congo. (image/jpeg)

Vermilion 380: Another Capitalist Oil Disaster Larry Everest / Revolution Newspaper 2010-09-03 10:51 PM

Thursday, September 2, New Orleans, Louisiana--This morning the Gulf of Mexico was again assaulted by yet another oil disaster – an oil disaster rooted in capitalism, and one that shows – once again – that this system is not a fit caretaker of the planet. Around 9:00 am, near Vermilion Bay, some 100 miles off the coast of southwest Louisiana (about 200 miles west of BP’s Deepwater Horizon rig), an oil and natural gas production platform run by Mariner Energy of Houston exploded and caught fire. Thankfully no one was killed, and the 13 from the platform were rescued. (image/jpeg)

Info on Occupation plus all TV Coverage reposted by New Orleans Indymedia 2010-09-02 1:42 AM

At 7am (CST) the Milneburg Hall at the University of New Orleans was occupied. However, by 8:40am, UNO PD were on the scene and removed the occupiers. While none of the occupiers were arrested then, at least 2 students have been arrested today during the walkout. (image/jpeg + 1 comment)

Capitalists, Global Warming, and the Climate Justice Movement James Herod 2010-08-30 6:27 AM

(This essay was published in Anarcho-Syndicalist Review, #54, Summer 2010, pages 23-28. For this internet edition I've made a few more changes and additions). An urgent analysis of the climate crisis and call to action. (image/jpeg)

Operação Tolerância Zero às drogas em Barra do Garças Carina Ayres 2010-08-23 9:10 PM

Polícia Militar prende dois suspeitos por posse de drogas em Barra do Garças (image/jpeg)

HANO Moves to Demolish Iberville Development? repost 2010-08-18 3:30 AM

A "request for qualifications" has been published by HANO, per federal laws, soliciting developer bids for "revitalization" of the Iberville development. (image/jpeg)

Prison Abolition In Practice --Part two of an interview with Criminal Injustice Kos Angola 3 News 2010-08-14 6:46 AM

Let’s get rid of prison rape. Let’s reinstitute rehabilitation. Let’s repeal certain draconian sentencing laws. All good and essential ideas. But very little – in some cases, nothing - will fundamentally change unless those ideas, and more, are advanced within a strategic framework of abolition. (image/jpeg)

Potential Impact of Health Reform on the Martin 2010-08-06 11:11 AM

Potential Impact of Health Reform on the Cost of Private Health Insurance (image/png)

Africa advocates to Obama: Don’t recognize Kagame’s election Africa advocates 2010-07-28 2:54 PM

President Obama said, in his 2009 speech in Accra, Ghana, that America should support strong institutions and not strong men. However, in the case of Rwanda, this has been no more than rhetoric. Rwandans, like most Africans, cheered Obama’s election, hoping that it might signal a new, more peaceful and cooperative relationship between the U.S. and Africa, but Obama has expanded AFRICOM, the U.S. Africa Command, and now he remains silent as Rwanda’s strongman, President Paul Kagame, prepares a sham presidential election to retain his brutal grip on power. (image/jpeg)

BP Texas Refinery Had Huge Toxic Release Just Before Gulf Blowout repost - Ryan Knutson 2010-07-27 3:05 PM

Two weeks before the blowout in the Gulf of Mexico, the huge, trouble-plagued BP refinery in Texas City, Texas spewed tens of thousands of pounds of toxic chemicals into the skies. photo by Lance Rosenfield The release from the BP facility here began on April 6 and lasted 40 days. A 2005 explosion at the same refinery killed 15 workers; four more workers have died in accidents since then. Last year, the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration fined the company $87 million for failing to address safety problems that caused the 2005 blast. (image/jpeg + 4 comments)

BP continues to block access to the Plight of our birds, our Wildlife Elizabth Cook 2010-07-27 11:30 AM

Perhaps ithe greatest way that we can help the creatures, the wildlife impacted by this oil spill is to demand immediate and continuous access to our oil impacted beaches and marshes in order to observe and document their conditions and help when possible. Observation of wildlife will also give us clues as to possible effects on people exposed to toxins associated with this spill. Below I outline my reasoning: (image/jpeg)

International Call-out For Solidarity John Jay 2010-07-26 1:31 PM

Protest At All British Embassies, High Commissions, British Trade Offices and any other British interests globally. 12noon Friday 30th July 2010. (image/jpeg + 1 comment)

COINTELPRO and the Omaha Two --An interview with Michael Richardson Angola 3 News 2010-07-20 6:15 AM

In 2007, veteran journalist Michael Richardson began writing a series of articles for OpEdNews.com about Ed Poindexter and Mondo we Langa, who are two Black Panther political prisoners known as the Omaha Two. Richardson argues that they were framed for the 1970 murder of a policeman as part of the FBI’s notorious counterintelligence program, dubbed “COINTELPRO.” (image/jpeg)

Law Professor Jwani Mwaikusa: Martyr for truth at the International Criminal Tribunal for Charles Kambanda 2010-07-19 9:32 PM

The identity, motive and/or sponsors of Professor Jwani Mwaikusa’s assassins, in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, may remain “unknown,” meaning “unproven,” for some time, but Professor Mwaikusa’s friends and colleagues know that whoever was responsible deprived the legal fraternity and the entire human race of an irreplaceable, independent and incorruptible mind. (image/png)

Rwanda Green Party leader assassinated Ann Garrison 2010-07-14 8:56 PM

The Democratic Green Party of Rwanda's First Vice President Andre Kagwa Rwisereka was found dead, his head almost completely severed from his body, in the wetlands of the Makula River near Butare, Rwanda, on the morning of July 14, 2010. (image/jpeg)

Law Firm That Argued Against Drilling Moratorium Represents Phillips Petroleum... Repost 2010-07-13 3:08 PM

...Co-Chair of Obama's Deepwater Horizon Commission is Phillips Petroleum Board Member (image/jpeg)

Abolishing the Prison Industrial Complex --An interview with Criminal Injustice Kos Angola 3 News 2010-07-13 1:00 AM

If one accepts, as I do, that prisons in the US are a contemporary extension of chattel slavery, that prisons are irredeemably rooted in racism and classism that prisons serve no purpose save corporate profit and raw retribution, then one must call for their abolition. Prison “reform” is insufficient if the very notion and reality of prison itself is grounded in inequality, injustice and destruction. (image/jpeg)

Oakland outraged by Mehserle verdict: involuntary manslaughter Ann Garrison 2010-07-10 2:34 AM

Oakland - Riots broke out in Oakland California, on Thursday night, after a Los Angeles jury in the Johannes Mehserle case reported a verdict of "involuntary manslaughter, with a gun." (image/jpeg)

Cuba: dialogue ... and debate GALSIC 2010-07-09 9:31 PM

* We present the no. 16 issue (July 2010) of CUBA LIBERTARIA, edited by GALSIC (Grupo de Apoyo a los Libertarios y Sindicalistas Independientes en Cuba). You may obtain a .pdf file of this edition in Spanish at cubalibertaria@gmail.com (image/jpeg)

Rwanda: FDU blames police torture after Muhirwa faints in court Ann Garrison 2010-07-09 3:02 PM

FDU-Inkingi Party leader and presidential candidate Victoire Ingabire reported that the FDU's treasurer, Alice Muhirwa, mother of two, fainted in a Rwandan courtroom yesterday due to untreated torture wounds inflicted by the Rwandan Police. (image/jpeg)

The Iberville Public Housing and Mass Public Works Movements Make Gains! Jay Arena 2010-07-09 2:26 AM

The Iberville Public Housing and Mass Public Works Movements Make Gains! HANO Commits to Repairing All of Iberville--the Mass Movement Must Ensure This Happens All Out to Defend Sharon Jasper at July 21 Court Appearance (image/jpeg)

The Soft Hand Sudhama Ranganathan 2010-07-08 10:51 AM

Since the explosion on the Transocean Deepwater Horizon oil rig April 20, 2010 we have seen British Petroleum running from their obligations. They have constantly given inaccurate figures regarding just how much is leaking. They have shunned responsibilities regarding payments to workers. They have not allowed journalists to do their job as watchdogs over this incident on behalf of the public. (image/jpeg)

THIS WAS NO ACCIDENT: The BP Oil Spill, Nigerian Rebels, The Meaning of Sustainability... Ray B. 2010-07-08 12:15 AM

Like a mine explosion, an outbreak of smallpox, or a chestnut blight, BP's oil spill looked like just another disaster, a tragic mistake made by benevolent capitalists. But like those past tragedies, this oil spill is a predictable consequence of an industrial civilization where risks are not calculated by those who will face the consequences should something go wrong. (image/jpeg)

POLITICAL PRISONER JALIL MUNTAQIM RELEASES “WE ARE OUR OWN LIBERATORS” BOOK AMG 2010-07-07 10:40 PM

A former member of the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army, Muntaqim is one of the world's longest held political prisoners, having been incarcerated in the United States since 1971. (image/gif)

Like Nothing Sudhama Ranganathan 2010-07-06 2:17 PM

Politics is so strewn with selfishness and short memory. It often leads to a certain level of ingratitude towards people who propel politicians to campaign victories. For many who understand this and are playing the political game they expect it and believe it to be part of the package. They learn the ins and outs and see it as the system they need to navigate to get what they want. These are people who have something to gain personally from politics. For them there is always a sense of professional detachment from the issues. (image/jpeg)

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